Looping Moondog

Moondog fans in Germany, this is on tomorrow evening in Bochum:

“Looping Moondog two part canons, four part canons and six part canons with amazing Wolfgang Sellner cello and loop box and Stefan Lakatos on trimba percussion.

The cellist Wolfgang Sellner studied in Paris and Berlin, was a fellow of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Member of the Cologne “Miro String Quartet” and has been principal cellist of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra since 1991. He will play a fine program with Moondog loops together with Moondog expert and Trimba player of Stefan Lakatos”.

For more info on the venue go to: http://www.coolibri.de/veranstaltungskalender/wohnzimmer%20bochum.html

Moondog and Benny Goodman

"I wrote this piece back in 1955 and dedicated it to Benny Goodman. It is in the swing style, though classically conceived. The form is called a ground, that is, a theme played over and over in the bass. Counting the ground, this piece is in seventeen-part counterpoint - every eight bars a new part comes in, and, once in, keeps repeating its eight bars to the end, which is a sustained chord. Visually, the piece would look like the side of a staircase, one made of solid stone, the first step being the ground, which is repeated to the end, as are all the superimposed parts, the second step being the first added part etc. Bass drum plays four beats to the bar with snare duplicating the rhythm of the ground. The ground, played pizzicato by the double bass, is reinforced midway by the tuba and contrabass cello. The first added part is for Goodie, and that part is played in the highest register of the clarinet on the last repeat, up high like Benny plays. The ground is not played in the same register all the way through, but alternates between two registers, an octave apart, starting low, then high, low, high etc. to the end." Moondog

Moondog on the Keys

Performance: Monday, March 25, 2013 19.30

Grammatikoff, Duisburg, Dellplatz 16 A

Stefan Lakatos peforms ‘Moondog on the Keys’:

“Moondog trimba percussionist Stefan Lakatos and Mariam Tonoyan piano, presents the piano works by Moondog. ‘Moondog on the Keys’ is a brand new project by Stefan Lakatos. He is known world wide as one of the most extraordinary percussionist, and the leading exponent of the Moondog method of drumming. In the young Armenian classical pianist Mariam Tonoyan, Lakatos has found a true musical companion to share Moondog’s music with a new generation.”

For tickets go to:

http://www.grammatikoff.de/event/moondog-on-the-keys

I remember tromping through deep snow to go to his cabin

As part of our work on the film we are trying to gather as many newspaper and magazine articles about Moondog as we can find. This is a great one from the Upstate Magazine section of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

In 1970 Steven Knowlton a young journalist just getting into the newspaper business, took a trip up to Owego in Upstate New York to interview Moondog. We tracked him down recently to find out a little more about the trip. 
"I remember tromping through deep snow to go to his cabin. I recall that the snow was really deep, well over the tops of my boots, which were, I suppose, nine or 10 inches high. I spent the better part of a day with Moondog at his cabin. He didn't seem to mind the cold; I did. I got awfully sick after the day, and recall that I took it as something of a rite of passage of my own career that I went into the office the next day running a high fever and cranked out the piece for the magazine before going back to my apartment and going to bed for two or three days. I subsequently moved to Manhattan, where I would see him on Sixth Avenue from time to time at his accustomed street corner."

Thanks to Paul at Pop Wars for reproducing it here.

If you have any articles about Moondog that you'd like to share please message us.

http://www.popwars.com/music/moondog.php

Moondog fans in Germany check this out

Moondog fans in Germany check this out:

http://www.grammatikoff.de/event/moondog-on-the-keys/

Moondog on the Keys
Monday, March 25, 2013 19.30

Grammatikoff, Duisburg, Dellplatz 16 A
 "Moondog trimba percussionist Stefan Lakatos and Mariam Tonoyan piano, presents the piano works by Moondog.
'Moondog on the Keys' is a brand new project by Stefan Lakatos. He is known world wide as one of the most extraordinary percussionist, and the leading exponent of the Moondog method of drumming. In the young Armenian classical pianist Mariam Tonoyan, Lakatos has found a true musical companion to share Moondog's music with a new generation."

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